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What is a Social Enterprise?

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They also note that after the 2007 recession—when things looked grim for the U.S. InStove contributes both the technology for efficient stoves, and the means to create sustainable jobs. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. economy in general—U.S. charitable giving fell by only 10 percent. Here in the U.S.

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As the range of ingenuity in the digital space grew, the competition evolved to become the Interactive Awards, and ultimately expanded into the Interactive Innovation Awards, reflecting the increasingly multifaceted and diverse ecosystem of technological achievement and creative work. immersive technologies have come so far in the past year.

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If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO

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The small team, building a brand-new product, out-innovating complacent incumbents…not only is the experience fresh and exciting, it also focuses on the things most founders love—especially technical ones: Solving interesting problems, developing new technologies, devising a unique strategy. This can work, too. Conclusion.

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I canceled my first ever extended family trip to Hawaii less than a week before going. We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. I’ve written about the technology to lose weight in this post.

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We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. Consumer debt relative to incomes has risen to an all time high reaching 138% of 2007 (obviously that’s not sustainable!) We took $2.3

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